Clothes-drier.



A. WAYDITCH.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15. 1914.

1,154,080. Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21', 1915.

Application filed April 15, 1914-. Serial N 0. 832,064.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, More WAYDITCH, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is specification.

My invention relates to a clothes drier and has as its principal object to provide a device whereby a comparatively large number of clothes can be hung on a line of a given length. 7

A further object of my invention is to provide a device whereby the clothes may be hung on the drier inside the kitchen or wash room and then pushed out on the rope or line.

A final object of my invention resides in the particular arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the entire device as attached to the wash room ceiling and window on one side and to the pole or other suitable means of suspension on the other side. Fig. 2 is a detail view, partly in section and partly in elevation, of a particularly constructed hanger. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a part of the device. Fig. 4 is a side elevational view of another part of the device.

In the separate views the same part is designated by the same reference character.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, a hook 1 is fastened to a pole or wall or any other suitable means'for the suspension of a clothes line, designated by the reference character 2, on which hook 1 I hang one end of a clothes line 3, preferably of copper or galvanized steel wire to resist the corrosive influences and to the stress caused by changes of Weather and also to provide a smooth surface for the sliding of metal hooks thereon. One end of the line 3 is fastened to a hook a on one side of the window frame and another wire 5 attached to the other side of the window frame (point of attachment not shown in the drawing) has an eyelet at the free end, designated by the reference character 6,through The wire 5 is interrupted by a turnbuckle 7 with the use of which the line can be stretched or slackened according to the requirements, in an obvious manner. To the eyelet 6 is also attached a hook 8 holding one end of a piece of iron rod or wire 9 the other end of which is attached to the ceiling or the wall of the wash room as indicated at 10 or in any other suitable way. p

A rack constructed as hereafter described is adapted to hang the clothes on and is suspended on the inner wire or rod 9 in the washroom, where the clothes are hung on it and then it will be shoved out of the room over the line 3 as illustrated in the drawing (Fig. 1). If one rack is not sufficient, further similar racks can be constructed and shoved out one after the other, the rear end of each being coupled to the forward end of the following one. A chain 11 fastened with one end to the window frame (preferably on the hook 4) is attached with the other end to the last rack for the purpose of pulling same in when required. The racks above mentioned are constructed as follows: A pair of hangers substantially as illustrated in Fig. 2 and designated by the reference character 12 holds at its lower end a pole 13. The hanger 12 is constructed of flexible wire and when pressed with two fingers at 14-1 l opens easily at 15-15, enough to admit the line on which the rack is hung. After releasing at l414= the hanger takes again its normal position as shown in Fig. 2 and firmly grips thereby the line, on which however it can be moved freely in every direction; the upwardly eX- tending end 16 of the hanger 12 is terminating in a screw 17 by which the pair of hangers are fastened to a pole 18 on top of the rack which pole 18 prevents the clothes becoming entangled with the wire or line 3 in case they are swung up by the wind or any other emergency. The lower pole 13 is fitted out with a number of eyelets such as 19 ending in screws by means of which they are inserted in the pole 13. Now I provide other hangers similar to those above described and designated by 12, from which they differ only inasmuch as they are correspondingly smaller and instead of the formation of one upper end as designated by 16 they have this end formed as shown in Fig, reference character 21. These hangers or clamps 21 are attached to the eyelets 19 in the same manner as the hangers12 to the line 3 and at their lower ends they carry 7 each one clothes pin such as 22, suspended from the clamps 21 in their middle and having both arms or ends symmetrically shaped as shown in detail in Fig. t, where the slots 1 23-23are used for inserting in them smaller clothes and the slots such as 24 for larger clothes. The length of the clothes pins. are determined by the 'Wldtll of the opening through Which the rack Will be shoved outfrom the room on the line. Of course if one rack is only used, itcan also hang in the room itself. 7 7

Having thus described my invention, What I claim is: Y

The combination With a. clothes line, of a multitude of racks consisting each of a pair of flexible hangers, a pole passed through the lower ends of said hangers underneath the clothes line parallel to the same, trans-V Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by add i Washington, I). C.

verse clothes pins removably attached to said pole, adapted to take up the clothes, a guardrod supported by the upper ends of said hangers, superposed to the clothes line and parallel therewith, adapted to prevent 20 the clothes becoming entangled with the ALOYS WAYDITcH. Witnesses: Y ALADAR HAMBURGER, RUBEN PESUHING.

clothes line, and means for-attaching said ressi ng the Commissioner of Patents. 

